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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette
(28 Mar 1819 - 15 Mar 1891)
British civil engineer and civil engineer who solved the Victorian-era problem of the horrendous pollution of the sewage-laden River Thames by designing and building London's sewer system.
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Science Quotes by Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1 quote)
[The principle, in building a sewer system, was] ...of diverting the cause of the mischief to a locality where it can do no mischief.
— Sir Joseph William Bazalgette
Quoted in George Drysdale Dempsey and Daniel Kinnear Clark, On the Drainage of Lands, Towns, & Buildings (1887), 246.
See also:
- 28 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Bazalgette's birth.
- More for Sir Joseph William Bazalgette on Today in Science History page.
- The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis, by Stephen Halliday. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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